How to bake a cake - 101:

Ingredients:
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 cup milo
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons bicarbonate soda
  • 120gm butter (unsalted)
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons of strawberry jam
  • 1 1/2 cups vanilla yoghurt
  • Condensed milk
  • Block of chocolate

Step 1 -
Cream butter and sugar in a bowl until light and fluffy, then beat in eggs, one at a time.

Step 2 -
Mix dry ingredients together in another bowl.
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Step 3 -
Add the flour mixture alternately with the yoghurt and strawberry jam in three parts. Do not overmix.
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Step 4 -
Place batter in greased tin and bake in oven at 180 degrees celsius for 40 - 50 minutes. Leave to cook before icing.

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Step 5
Slowly heat condensed milk and chocolate in saucepan until runny. Do not boil!

Step 6
Allow icing to cool before pouring over cake. Allow to harder if you would like it to be thicker.

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Step 7 -
Decorate with strawberries and serve with cream!

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Happiness is eating this cake - YUMMO! I'll upload more photos tonight...

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Chocolate, yoghurt and strawberry jam cake! Or what is left of it at least :)



15/3/12

I found Haloumi, my favourite cheese, at Carrefour on Wednesday. It made me very happy :), but also a little homesick. Isn't it funny how food can conjure such strong memories...??? So I cooked myself a yummy, comfort food meal! Below is a lentil, brown rice and veggie mix, with grilled haloumi on top. Yum! In the mix I put some currents, onion, carrot, zucchini and beans. I drizzled lemon juice and olive oil over it all for a kicking finish.

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This weekend, I am baking some cakes. If you are all lucky, I will bring some in to class for breakfast :)




Do you have a sweet tooth? Here are somethings I made earlier :)

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Apple cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and almonds

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Red velvet cupcakes

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Greek traditional dessert - Bogatsa - made with custard in the middle


12/3/201

This is a yoga website where I often go to find do at home classes - http://yogatoday.com/

On the weekend I went for a 14km run on Friday afternoon, and then I did a flow yoga class on Sunday afternoon. The perfect way to frame my weekend. I was so relaxed sitting at home last night and slept soundly until my alarm woke me up at 6.15 :(

Food highlight of the was dinner at Masala Art on Saturday night for my friends birthday. Check out SmartShanghai - it is where I find all my food stuff for Shanghai - http://www.smartshanghai.com/venue/2329/Masala_Art_shanghai


5/3/12

This is what you eat for dinner when you are training for a marathon - Brown rice, lentils and currents with spinach, celery and carrot, spiced with cinnamon - topped with tuna!
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26/2/2012

Today I ran 23kms to an anthology of Michael Jackson hits in alphabetical order - I made it from A to W...